Material Things Quotes

• One day you will realize that material things mean nothing. All that matters is the well being of the people in your life.

  Leon Brown

  Life, Positive Thinking, Mean

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• Seeking happiness in material things is a sure way of being unhappy.

  Pope Francis

  Unhappy, Way, Seeking Happiness

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• The best things in life aren't things.

  Art Buchwald

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• The most valuable lesson I've ever learned in my life is that life is about family and friends, not about material things or any of that. It's about enjoying your life. If you have no family, no friends to enjoy it with, it don't matter how much you have, how much success you have, how much fame you have, how much money you have, it doesn't matter.

  Vanilla Ice

  Family And Friends, No Friends, Lessons

  Interview with Dimitri Ehrlich, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 14, 2011.

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• Children will not remember you for the material things you provided but for the feeling that you cherished them.

  Richard L. Evans

  Inspirational, Children, Teaching

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The greatest victory in life is to rise above the material things that we once valued most

  Muhammad Ali

  Greatest Victory, Life Is, Rise Above

  Twitter post from Sep 25, 2015

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• The greatest legacy one can pass on to one's children and grandchildren is not money or other material things accumulated in one's life, but rather a legacy of character and faith.

  Billy Graham

  Children, Character, Legacy

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• I am convinced that material things can contribute a lot to making one's life pleasant, but, basically, if you do not have very good friends and relatives who matter to you, life will be really empty and sad and material things cease to be important.

  David Rockefeller

  Friendship, Family, Money

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I fear we are too much concerned with material things to remember that our real strength lies in spiritual values.

  Harry S. Truman

  Spiritual, Real, Lying

  United States. President (1945-1953 : Truman), Harry S. Truman (1962). “Harry S. Truman: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President, 1945-53”

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• If money and material things become the center of our lives, they seize us and make us slaves.

  Pope Francis

  Slave, Materials, Our Lives

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• The love for material things grows like a fungus in the soul and destroys the loveliness of the human heart utterly.

  Caryll Houselander

  Heart, Greed, Soul

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• Money, credit scores, material things don't matter. Life & death, your family & friends, once they're gone it's irreversible. Don't forget.

  Heather Dorff

  Gone, Credit, Matter

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• Those too impressed with material things cannot hold their place n the world of culture; they are relegated to inferiority and ultimate death.

  Alexander Crummell

  Culture, Inferiority, World

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• Always demanding the best of oneself, living with honor, devoting one's talents and gifts to the benefits of others - these are the measures of success that endure when material things have passed away.

  Henry Ford

  Life, Success, Goal

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• If pursuing material things becomes your only goal, you will fail in so many ways. Besides, in time all material things go away.

  John Wooden

  Goal, Going Away, Failing

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• There is no such thing as material covetousness. All covetousness is spiritual. ...Any so-called material thing that you want is merely a symbol: you want it not for itself, but because it will content your spirit for the moment.

  Mark Twain

  Spiritual, Greed, Want

  Mark Twain (1973). “What Is Man? and Other Philosophical Writings”, p.202, Univ of California Press

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• Don't depend on other people to be responsible for you. Don't make yourself stressed out over nonsensical things like material things.

  Eartha Kitt

  People, Stressed, Nonsensical

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• You can't substitute material things for love or for gentleness or for tenderness or for a sense of comradeship

  Mitch Albom

  Inspirational, Life, Substitutes

  FaceBook post by Mitch Albom from Mar 13, 2017

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• Success has to be an inside job. Happiness does not come from external material things. Even people don't make us ultimately happy. It's how we choose to deal with those things that happen in our lives that matters.

  Demi Moore

  Jobs, People, Matter

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I have my own high standards for what I want in a partner and how I want to be treated. I bring a lot to the table. I'm not talking about material things but what I have to offer as a person - love and loyalty and all the things that make a good relationship.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Loyalty, Talking, Good Relationship

  "Are Jennifer Lopez And Casper Smart On The Rocks?". Cosmopolitan Interview, www.foxnews.com. October 15, 2013.

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• It is preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.

  Bertrand Russell

  Life, Money, Freedom

  "Principles of Social Reconstruction". Book by Bertrand Russell, 1917.

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• No one person or material thing could ever come close to the feeling I get when the music is right.

  Barry Manilow

  Feelings, Music Is, Passion For Music

  Twitter post from Jan 25, 2017

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• I know fashion is a material thing, but we live in a material world and I love clothes.

  Patti Smith

  Fashion, Clothes, World

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• Let's be cautious about relying so much on material things that we have no energy left for the spiritual aspects of our lives.

  James A. Forbes

  Spiritual, Energy, Aspect

  "9/12: What Now?" by Dr. James A. Forbes, Jr., www.huffingtonpost.com. September 15, 2011.

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• The few men who possess the wealth of the material things of the earth at the present time are not truly happy.

  Joseph Franklin Rutherford

  Men, Earth, Wealth

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